Drawing from resilience and positive youth development frameworks, the ARCHES Lab conducts research that (1) identifies individual, school-, and community-level factors that promote health and positive social development among LGBTQ+ youth, and (2) develops tools to address health inequities faced by LGBTQ+ youth. With funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Institute for Education Sciences, the ARCHES Lab collaborates on multi-site, longitudinal, mixed-method research that evaluates how school-based Gender & Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) contribute to well-being and positive academic outcomes among LGBTQ+ youth. In addition, the ARCHES Lab supports GSAs engaged in youth participatory action research projects to investigate youth-identified issues with the goal of changing the settings and systems that serve LGBTQ+ youth.
Current and Past Funding:
- IES R305A240326 (MPI: Poteat, Calzo, Yoshikawa, Marx) 2024-2028
- IES R305A190165 (MPI: Poteat, Calzo, Yoshikawa) 2019-2024
- NIH R01MD009458 (PI: Poteat, Co-Is: Calzo, Yoshikawa), 2015-2019
- CSU Faculty Start-Up Funding (Calzo)